Cool is not going to compensate for the skill set and the focus and discipline needed for the learning curve. In general, the USA public school system is (still

Cool is not going to compensate for the skill set and the focus and discipline needed for the learning curve. In general, the USA public school system is (still) optimized for churning out cookie cutter workers, not creative problem solvers. Some technology tool is the means (not the ends) and that means sits firmly on a foundation of creativity and probably solving. Why don't teach kids to ask why and what if. We teach them to conform. Somehow some of us don't get caught in that trap. And some of those become engineers.